A lifelong exponent of the integration of art and architecture, and celebrated for his paintings, sculpture, ceramics, mosaic, and his radical innovation in stained glass, Brian Clarke has been a major figure in contemporary art for the last four decades.
Distilling the euphoria of form and colour, Clarke’s oeuvre is testament to the fact that ‘artistic practice has the ability to change the shape of things, has the ability to transform the world.’ This film charts his life and career from a modest upbringing in Oldham, through cutting-edge punk years, to producing the single largest pieces of stained glass in the world at this time.
With contributions from Paul Greenhalgh, Director, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts; photographer Ralph Gibson; Dame Zaha Hadid; Sir Peter Cook; and June Osborne, DL, Bishop of Llandaff.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
The Modern Invention of Ancient White Marble (An Aeon Video, 6 mins)
Ancient Greek sculptures were colourful. Why does the white marble ideal persist?
For most people today, ancient Greek sculpture brings to mind images of
pearly white human figures. Yet, ever since the first excavations of Pompeii in
the 17th century, archeologists have known that these sculptures were
painted in vivid colours. The German archeologists Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike
Koch-Brinkmann have been studying the polychromatic nature of ancient Greek
sculptures for some four decades – a process that involves research through
reconstruction. In this short film from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, Brinkmann discusses their process, and why the visual code of white
antique marble persists today.
Video by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Directors: Sarah Cowan, Jonathan Sanden
26 July 2022
Ancient Greek sculptures were colourful. Why does the white marble ideal persist? | Aeon Videos
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